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course, is to prevent masturbation in the first place. This subject is treated on
pages 179-85, and I am sure the means presented there must prove infallible - at
least in the minds of the Doctors Warner.
111 WATSON, Bernard. THE TENDER YEARS. A Handbook for Salvationist Workers
Among Adolescents. By Bernard Watson. London: Salvationist Publishing and
Supplies, Ltd., 1954.
21½ cm. 104 pp. Orig. green cloth lettered in black on spine and front board. In
pale green dust jacket decorated in black. Fine in worn dust jacket. $30
Only edition on OCLC, which locates only six copies in the United States (none
in New York).
Masturbation, pp. 15-16, with some emphasis on girls. "Abnormalities which are
a problem among young people and a challenge to the youth leader are
masturbation, sexual promiscuity and homo-sexuality." (p. 15). The writer
admits that claims of insanity and other physical evils resulting from
masturbation have been ". . . greatly exaggerated. From the spiritual aspect,
however, there is a case against masturbation." Being solitary and counter to
natural sex, the practice can lead to "excessive introspection, even morbidity . . .
and may induce a guilt complex with disastrous affects on the morale and the
spiritual life of a young person." (p. 15)
Don't screen young people to discover who is masturbating, p. 15; in the case of
girls, help "should come from a woman youth leader. [p. 16]" After this brief
treatment, Watson turns to the problems of sexual promiscuity and "Homosexuality"
which "is more widespread than is commonly believed . . . ," p. 17.
112 WISE, Daniel. THE YOUNG MAN'S COUNSELLOR; Or, Sketches and
Illustrations of the Duties and Dangers of Young Men. Designed to be a Guide to
Success in this Life, and to Happiness in the Life which is to Come. By Rev. Daniel
Wise, A.M., Author of "The Path of Life, "Bridal Greetings, "Life of Zuingle," etc. etc.
Sixth Thousand. New-York: Published by Lane & Scott, 1852.
17½ cm. 255 pp. + engraved allegorical frontispiece and extra engraved title,
giving the publishers' names as G[eorge]. Lane and L. Scott. George Lane was a
principal Methodist minister/publisher identified by some historians as a
revivalist who inspired young Joseph Smith, future founder of Mormonism, to
seek his first Christian experience through prayer in the woods near Palmyra,
New York in the early nineteenth century.
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